Actor and Director of a Bergman Parody, Dies at 86 (New York Times obituary): ‘George Coe, a film, stage and television actor who earned an Oscar nomination for his single picture as a director — the 1968 short feature De Düva: The Dove, a mock-Swedish-inflected sendup of Ingmar Bergman that has endured as a cult favorite — died on July 18 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 86.’
I recall seeing De Düva at the late lamented Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge in the early ’70’s. After twenty minutes or so, a member of the audience suddenly stood up in the front row, threw his arms heavenward, and shouted out to the audience, “My God! I’m so stoned I can understand Swedish!”
A De Düva lexicon, via The New York Times:
‘Mooska: Cow
Zooner-or-lätsker: Eventually
Skå she vinska, you godda set her freesk: If she wins, you must set her free.
Me yoost haf dis schmatte waschen: I just had this clothing washed.
H20ska: Water
Phalliken zymbol: Cigar…’
